An Act to make provision for orders to protect persons from risks associated with stalking; and for connected purposes.
Citation
2019 c. 9
Introduced by
Dr. Sarah Wollaston (Commons) Baroness Bertin (Lords)
Territorial extent
England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent
15 March 2019
Commencement
20 January 2020
Other legislation
Relates to
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 Policing and Crime Act 2017
Status: Current legislation
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended
The Stalking Protection Act 2019 (c. 9) is an Act of Parliament put forward as a private member's bill by then Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston which creates a civil protection order to prevent stalking.[1][2]
civil protection order to prevent stalking. In 2012, the Government amended the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 to introduce two new stalking offences...
involving stalking and harassment.[citation needed] The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 was preceded by the Stalking Bill. At the time of the Act's passing...
Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance or contact by an individual or group toward another person. Stalking behaviors are interrelated to harassment...
agreement included a "stalking horse" provision: If the purchaser, York Capital Management, were to be designated as a stalking horse in subsequent bidding...
violence, child abuse, assault, harassment, stalking, or sexual assault. Restraining and personal protection order laws vary from one jurisdiction to another...
The Violence Against Women Act established new offenses and penalties for the violation of a protection order or stalking in which an abuser crossed a...
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 contains an offence of stalking covering cyber-stalking, which was introduced into the act through the Protection...
ProtectionAct (FOPA) of 1986 is a United States federal law that revised many provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968. Under the Gun Control Act of...
domestic abuse, stalking, and shootings. Although the boyfriend loophole has a direct effect on people who experience domestic abuse or stalking by former or...
have been shot. Secondly, the stalking or flushing out must take place on land which belongs to the person doing the stalking or flushing out or which he...
In June 2019, she left Change UK to sit as an independent MP. Wollaston was the sponsor of the StalkingProtectionAct2019. On 14 August 2019, Wollaston...
Schaeffer's address, the U.S. Congress passed the Driver's Privacy ProtectionAct, which prohibits state Departments of Motor Vehicles from disclosing...
sanctions on stalking since 2007, and legal protection was strengthened with the entry into force of the Act to Improve Protection Against Stalking in 2017...
stressed the Act was intended to provide leave protection "in a manner that accommodates the legitimate interests of employers." On December 20, 2019, as part...
Office on Violence Against Women to create the Stalking Resource Center (SRC). Since its inception, the Stalking Resource Center has trained over 100,000 professionals...
fan who had been stalking her. Schaeffer’s death helped lead to the passage in California of legislation aimed at preventing stalking. Schaeffer was born...
the federal government passed a bill to "criminalize" stalking was due to the cases of stalking against celebrities (Spitzberg & Hoobler, 2002). For example...
(Charles Durning) to come to Julia's aid and help figure out who is stalking her. For protection, Jill helps Julia purchase a gun and teaches her how to use it...
to be terrified. And the Interstate Stalking Statute "is rarely enforced and it serves only as a hollow protection from online harassment". According to...
is subject to a court order that restrains such person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner of such person or child of such intimate...
Women Act (18 U.S.C. § 2265). It is a legal intervention in which one person (the respondent) who is deemed to be hurting, threatening or stalking another...